Age of Empires Online launches August 16

@ladiesman17 if I could give you 10000 thumbs up i would. GFWL is the absolute worst piece of crap ever. Its ruined so many good games and even after all these years is still a big steaming pile.

For those taking an instant hate on for this game because of the art style or the online format, I wonder if you've even participated in the beta. I have, and now that it's over, I'm playing the pre-release. Now that the NDA is no more, I can say for sure that this is, and feels like an Age of Empires game. To be honest, it feels like a throw back to the original, without the annoyances, like having to rebuild farms. Nothing can top Age of Kings / Conquerors, but this game is a blast.

RIP Ensemble Studios. I have all the other AoE games, but this just doesn't look as interesting

Rather than bothering with AoE online Microsoft should learn first how to optimizing their Games For Windows Live!! because as far as I know those service is a train wreck :( It busted.

Thankgod Ms got a brain on the right point in this game....

Do NOT want. AoE 4 or bust.

Gimmie an Age of Mythology port for the Xbox and I will be in hog heaven.

Who is "RobotEntertainment"? Gas Powered Games(supreme commander) is making this not them. If it goes well and makes GPG lots of money I'll be happy because they deserve it and then they might be able to work on Sup Com 3 :)

I am unsure how they will make an AOE 4 for a start Marc_JL31, but....this seems decent, just a shame it isn't made by Ensemble as they went out of business a few years back.

Seems cool. But I rather just have a AOE 4. AOE III was my first experience with it and liked it so much, I went back and played the first 2. This and Rise of Nations are the only RTS I really ever got into and Total War just doesnt feel the same. I want AOE back so I may have to try this.

I could have gotten into the beta expect I wasn't going to create a xbl account but the thing is I already have one because of my hotmail account I had hotmail before M$ bought it

This game is really really fun, I am a beta tester and it does justice to the age franchise.

It looked good until I saw the GFWL user interface.

So glad it's finally coming out. I was in the beta for a bit, but I didn't play it much because I wanted the achievements to count. Now they will, woohoo!

Great.